Absolute Quotes

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From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next… — Graham Greene
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust.… — Roger Caras
In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when… — Karl Rahner
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and… — Robert A. Heinlein
How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god? — Ian Mcewan
Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter,… — Tom Robbins
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. — Shirley Jackson
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with… — Ayn Rand
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. — William Makepeace Thackeray
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and… — Wallace Stegner
There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There… — Simone de Beauvoir
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless… — Cormac McCarthy
. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving. — Marilynne Robinson
This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living… — Allen Ginsberg
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of… — Graham Greene
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. — Ernest Hemingway
The duty of priviledge is absolute intregity — John O'Donohue
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world,… — Anais Nin
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. — Frank Herbert
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without… — Ron Paul

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